Mickie and Mike

eBook EXCERPT

He watched her strain her head forward, peering into the dimly lit backyard; the
moonlight painted one side of her face a strange ivory statue color. The short sleeves
of her pajama shirt contrasted with the bare skin of her arm and the fluffy bottoms
that ended at the knees. It looked almost ghostly as she appeared to float across
the grass toward him.

"How do you move like that?" he whispered as she came closer. "You seem to just glide
instead of walk."

She smiled and let a little squeak of sound, not a laugh, not a chuckle, come forth.
"Girl secrets, I'll never tell," she said as she knelt down beside him and arranged
the sleeping bag and pillow next to him.

"I couldn't sleep," she said quietly as she crawled onto the sleeping bag and lowered
her head to the pillow. "It's beautiful out tonight; you been here long?"

"Yeah, quite a while; I just felt like sleeping outside tonight."

Neither spoke for several minutes; the crickets sang again, a car went by and high
above, the lights of a jet-liner crawled across the sky. "Any shooting stars?" she
asked.

"Nope..."

"Oh."

More silence until she sat up and pulled the liner of the sleeping bag over her legs
and turned to him on one elbow. "Mike? You thinking about anything special..."

“I COULDN'T SLEEP.” SHE SAID QUIETLY AS SHE CRAWLED ONTO THE SLEEPING BAG AND...

eBook DESCRIPTION

Young brother and sister come clean about their feelings for each other out in the
backyard on a starry, starry night, in sleeping bags. It's the first time for both,
with the shy and awkward guilt of breaking promises to parents and themselves...
a discovery for both... a love story. Whoever said, 'It's like kissing your sister,'
didn't know what they were talking about.